ACT IV.]
LADY INGER OF ÖSTRAT.
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or messages for him, beg her not to delay him needlessly." And then she added somewhat that I heard not rightly.
Lady Inger.
Did you not hear it at all?
Biörn.
It sounded to me as though she said:—"Almost I fear he has already tarried too long at Östråt."
Lady Inger.
And the knight? Where is he?
Biörn.
In his chamber belike, in the gate-wing.
Lady Inger.
It is well. What I have to send by him is ready. Go to him and say I await him here in the hall.
[Biörn goes out to the right.
Olaf Skaktavl.
Know you, Lady Inger,—'tis true that in such things I am blind as a mole; yet seems it to me as though
h'm!Lady Inger.
Well?
Olaf Skaktavl.
as though Nils Lykke bore a mind to your daughter.